A Book of Hours was the primary text for private lay devotion in the late middle ages and Renaissance. Consisting of the cycle of prayers to be recited at the eight canonical hours or established times for prayers throughout the day, the content of...

Chinese government building at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, is pagoda style, with Chinese characters on dark, central pillars. There is an octagonal gazebo wing to the left, and a flag on a flagpole in front of the building. "Chinese...

Artist, mother, hospital worker, occasional writer on women's issues and goddess consciousness, learned 'women's work' as a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Companion of Ann Cushman, whose help on this project has made it whatever it...

Frankfort Avenue near Mellwood Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. View of Frankfort Avenue with telephone wires on each side. Little else is shown on the right but on the left are two drugstores at opposite street corners; the second one is "Billig...

Persian poetry, written in calligraphy on handmade paper. This original fourteenth century leaf is from a calligraphic manuscript of the Divan of Hafiz, the collected poems of the poet also known as Muhammed Shamsuddin Hafiz or Shamsoddin Mohammad...

Soup tureen sits on a platter decorated with holly. Four lit candles glow in the corner. "Here's to a happy holiday, health and wealth for all the year" is printed on the front. "Ellen H. Clapsaddle" is written in script (apparently printed, not...

Entrance to the Kenyon building located at 112 5th St. in Louisville, Ky. The entrance is surrounded by a flat rectangular marble stones. In modern script across both sides of the doorway is "Kenyon Bldg 112." Above the entrance is a second story...

Persian poetry, written in calligraphy on handmade paper. One of Persia's most famous poets, the twelfth century Nizam-uddin Abu Mahommed Ilyas bin Yusuf lived most of his life in Ganja, in what now is Azerbaijan. Nizami is best remembered for his...

Mezzanine lounge at Loews Theater on Fourth Street between Broadway and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. View includes part of a carpeted, curvy interior room situated in front of a partition mostly encompassed by two archways and one rectangular...

A copy photograph of an iron pole with decorative swirl flourishes with a hanging sign that reads "Sulgrave Road" in Gothic style script. A small iron lantern also hangs from the pole. The copy was produced by Caufield & Shook and was requested by...

Original sixteenth century leaf from a commentary or writings about the text of the Qur'an written on handmade paper. Followers of Islam find the Qur'an to be the literal word of God, revealed through the prophet Muhammad and containing all things...

An original manuscript leaf from a late sixteenth century or early seventeenth century Persian Qur'an, written and illuminated circa 1570-1630 on handmade paper. The Qur'an or Holy Koran is the key religious text for Islam. Followers of Islam find...

The Qur'an or Holy Koran is the key religious text for Islam. Followers of Islam find the Qur'an to be the literal word of God, revealed through the prophet Muhammad and containing all things necessary for a righteous life. This illuminated leaf of...

Oil, house paint, crayon, and pencil on canvas. "The classical setting and celebration of intellectual probity evoked in the title's reference to Raphael's School of Athens (c.1510-12, Vatican, Rome) are offset by markings evoking bodily excess and...

Address: 419 Finzer Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Along the top portion of this brick building are signs painted directly on the brick which read "Stewart's" and "Furniture Warehouse." The section with the word "Stewart's" is partially obscured by...

Tahrir Square in Cairo became the focal point and the most effective symbol of the protests in January and February 2011. For 18 days Egyptians repeated the slogan: The People Want to Bring down the Regime (al-sha'b yurid isqat al-nizam) until the...

Exterior view of new bus "Miss Louisville" parked at the Louisville waterfront with the Fourteenth Street Bridge in the background. Two men, one in uniform, stand alongside the bus and another man is sitting in the driver's seat. "Kentucky Carrier...

Exterior view of new bus "Miss Louisville" parked at the Louisville waterfront with the Fourteenth Street Bridge in the background. Two men, one in uniform, stand alongside the bus and another man is sitting in the driver's seat. "Kentucky Carrier...